How do I duplicate only part of an application?

[imported_Shivetya]

I want to create a duplicate of my WOW application.

How do I do so without copying the entire contents of it? I want to also make an alias to the originals data and interface folders as those won't change.

Its got to be easy, right? If I select duplicate it will do the whole thing... can I just make a folder and copy what a I want?


edit:

OK, I have created a copy of what I wanted, but I cannot get a symbolic link to create.

I want to link Applications/World of Warcraft/Data to my WOW/Data .... yet everytime it does not exist

ln -fs ~/World of Warcraft/Data ~/wow/Data

actual error /Users/Monolith/wow/Data: No such file or directory


I can navigate to /Applications/WOW
I can navigate to /Applications/World of Warcraft/Data

but I cannot get the ln to work

 

[bastula]

The ~ denotes the Users home folder. It looks like you want to store the the application in the Applications folder. Therefore your command should be:

ln -fs /Applications/WOW/Data /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/Data

Don't forget the "\ " to denote spaces.

Give that a shot.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: bastula
The ~ denotes the Users home folder. It looks like you want to store the the application in the Applications folder. Therefore your command should be:

ln -fs /Applications/WOW/Data /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/Data

Don't forget the "\ " to denote spaces.

Give that a shot.

K, I will try that... never knew of the \ and that probably is my hang up

 

[Nothinman]

Instead of using \ to escape spaces you should be able to just quote the whole string. Just use tab completion, whatever it gives you should work for the shell that you're using.